Library Media Specialist Responsibilities (General)

1. Supervise and evaluate staff, student aides and volunteers
2. Teach lessons to students and teachers/schedule classes
3. Set long term goals for library
4. Assist with school wide goals like NCA and Prop. 301
5. Order books, capital items, and supplies
6. Weed/discard materials
7. Check student passes with other library staff
8. Supervise computer labs
9. Teach book repair
10. Inventory with other library staff
11. Reading and dusting of shelves
12. Budget-capital, supplies, and bookstore
13. Catalog items without records available
14. Order supplies
15. Set up displays with other library staff
16. Organize activities to promote circulation and the library with other library staff
17. Update Web page
18. Discipline students
19. Attend department chair meetings
20. Collect data to improve library use
21. Prepare year-end report
22. Cover when staff are absent
23. Lock up and shut down if last to leave

Performs duties as assigned by administration

Library Assistant’s Responsibilities (General)

1. Opening up library and all the entails (turning on lights, front computers, and copy machine, picking up newspapers from back, unlocking doors, checking bathrooms and voice messages)
2. Circulation (adding and deleting patrons, collecting fines, checking in and out materials, holding materials, student withdrawals)
3. Shelving materials (magazines, books, videos) with the help of others
4. Processing magazines and displaying them
5. Notifying librarian of any problems receiving magazines
6. Reading and dusting shelves with other staff
7. Scheduling classes and leaving notes in teachers’ boxes the night before they are scheduled
8. Notifying students and teachers if holds are ready
9. Checking student passes
10. Monitoring student behavior and providing discipline when needed
11. Assisting students, teachers, and patrons with locating materials
12. Asking for help from colleagues when needed
13. Helps supervise student aides
14. Inventory/weeds with other staff
15. Organizes bulletin boards and displays
16. Waters plants weekly
17. Helps promote library
18. Notifies appropriate librarian of items requested
19. Attends meetings and in-services when asked
20. Works as a crucial member of the team
21. Follows the supervisory chart (chain of command) when issues arise
22. Runs overdue notices with other staff
23. Deposits money at bookstore from fines and copier monthly and get change when needed for front desk
24. Records 3M gate count Monday am and Friday pm
25. Sends books to library clerk for repair
26. Monthly story times with preschool
27. Closing down and locking up if last to leave
28. Performs duties as assigned by librarian

Library Clerk/Media Technician’s Responsibilities

The library clerk’s workday consists of eight (8) work hours and a thirty-minute lunch. The library clerk is responsible for the cataloging and processing materials in accordance with district’s job description.

1. Checking-in new items and marking received and date on purchase order
2. Sending receipts to accounting and keeping track of money on blanket PO’s
3. Processing items (Follett, barcodes, labels, pockets, bug, cover) to be checked by back librarian before going on shelves
4. Writing thank you notes with tax deduction information for donations
5. Repairing items if it is possible
6. Notifying back librarian if book is beyond repair
7. Discarding books under supervision of back librarian
8. Checking mail and delivering to library staff
9. Reading and dusting shelves with other staff
10. Inventory/weed with other staff
11. Helps with promotion of library
12. Covering front desk or other areas when needed (library assistant is at lunch, during library assistant’s off desk work 1 hour a day, after-school tutoring if applicable, and some hours if library assistant is absent at the request of a librarian). This position is never responsible to open the library. The library assistant will open and if she is not present a librarian will open.
13. Help covering the floor/lab during tutoring (out of office, circulating, and visible to students during the entire tutoring time)
14. Check-in and check-out of audiovisual equipment (VCR, boom box, camcorder, tripod)
15. Helping Bill Maginnis with audiovisual tasks when needed
16. Helping school administration, faculty, staff and students with audiovisual equipment when needed
17. Monitoring student behavior and providing discipline when needed
18. Asking for help from colleagues when needed
19. Runs overdue notices with front librarian
20. Assists students, teachers, and patrons with locating materials
21. Notifies appropriate librarian of items requested
22. Attends meetings and in-services
23. Works as a crucial member of the team
24. Addresses any problems with this position to back librarian then follows chain of command if the issue is not resolved
25. Closing down and locking up if last to leave

Performs duties as assigned by a librarian